🏵️THESE YELLOW FLOWERS MAY BE STARTING THE COUNTDOWN TO OUR FIRST FROST. 👀🥶⁠ ⁠ Weather fact or fiction: ⁠ If you’ve driven pretty much anywhere around the Mid-Atlantic lately, you’ve probably seen goldenrod EVERYWHERE.⁠ And according to an old piece of weather folklore, once goldenrod blooms, our first frost is about six weeks away.⁠ ⁠ Storm Team4 meteorologist Lauryn Ricketts filmed these blooming on September 7.⁠ Six weeks later? October 19. 😳⁠ And considering October is when we typically start watching for those first frosty mornings around parts of our area… this one isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds.⁠ ⁠ Quick weather nerd note 🤓 Frost can form even when the air temperature is a few degrees above freezing. A freeze means the temperature actually reaches 32° or lower.⁠ ⁠ So, no—the goldenrod isn’t secretly running a weather model. 😂 But as one of nature’s signs that colder mornings are getting closer?⁠ Our ancestors may have been onto something.🏵️➡️🥶⁠ FOLKLORE OR FORECAST?⁠ ...